Preheat the oven to 375°F. Grease an 8 to 10-inch-round baking or tart pan with spray oil. Cut each apricot or plum half into 4 slices. Place the flour, ½ cup of the sugar, the ginger, and baking ...

Used to be selecting fruit was simple - plums were plums and apricots were apricots. Now we find odd named fruits, such as pluots, apriums, apriplums and plumcots. Showing up recently in some Lubbock ...

Plumcots, Pluots, and Apriums are all hybrid fruits, meaning that one variety of produce has been crossbred with a second variety to produce an entirely new third variety. Many fruits and vegetables ...

Hybrid fruit trees are often hardier. They can also produce delicious fruit in more abundance than their parents. That's a ...

IN THE BEGINNING, not much was as basic as fruit. Eve ate an apple in the Garden of Eden. The sundae had a cherry on top. Good things were peachy-keen. Now, it’s more complicated for growers of one ...

Some say that pluots, a happy meld of plum and apricot, with sweet flesh and tart, plumlike skin, are the best of both worlds. And they're at their peak right now. It has been about two decades since ...

If California has an emblematic Christmas feast, a holiday tradition that captures the spirit and history of this state of displaced people, it might well be the Bracebridge Dinner at Yosemite’s ...

BOISE – Oblivious to the fruit and berry juice already staining his happy face, 2-year-old Chayton Aumeier bites into a juicy plumcot, its tart, apricotlike skin blending its perfume into the sweet, ...

Here's how the experts say you should plant a pit—and how to care for it.

The Japanese apricot -- a plant native to China, actually -- is one of the longest lived of the flowering fruit trees. It’s a symbol of resilience in the face of adversity thanks to its early flowers, ...